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New IS major is not just about computers -- it's about people

Cornell's Faculty of Computing and Information Science now offers a major in information science, which combines computer science with the social sciences to study how people and society interact with information.

Preserving a movement: Video archive documents explosive era in Chinese modern art

An archive of some 360 hours of digital video footage documenting the history of contemporary Chinese art since 1985 has found a home at Cornell.

On the Washington Mall, Cornell's solar house blooms

With judging in two events finished, Cornell's Solar Decathlon house is in fourth place, only 25 points behind the leader.

From Darfur to poor neighborhoods, service-learning program reaches out

Courses within the Faculty Fellows-in-Service (FFIS) program aim to combine the theory of service-learning with practical challenges of applying those theories.

2005 Cornell United Way campaign kickoff is a piece of cake

Cornell kicked off its United Way campaign Oct. 4. This year's goal is $627,000.

Piano concerts and symposium will be music and words to Malcolm Bilson's ears

The Department of Music is celebrating music professor Bilson's 37-year career at Cornell in honor of his 70th birthday on Oct. 24.

The post-Cold War globe is 'A World of Regions'

International relations scholar Peter Katzenstein advocates in his latest book a geopolitical view of the globe as a world of regions organized by American power.

Get me to the class on time: Student's idea does just that

The Neverlate 7-Day Alarm Clock, an invention by Adam Hocherman, an MBA student at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, promises to get students to class on time every day of the week. The

CU researcher explains how newborns' exposure to toxic substances could be behind sharp rises in asthma, allergies and lupus

The real dangers from environmental toxicants most likely occur early in life, said Rod Dietert, professor of immunotoxicology at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.

Cornell vehicle eliminated from DARPA Challenge

Cornell's entry performed beautifully in the DARPA Grand Challenge, as far as it went, but was eliminated after only nine miles due to a software weakness, the team reported.

Bethe lecturer will explain -- and demonstrate -- workings of atomic-scale microscopy

Donald M Eigler, a physicist at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., presents the 2005 Hans Bethe lecture, 'Life Among the Atoms: A Celebration of the Small Frontier.'

Why people do what they do day-to-day -- they're not just driven by their economic interest, says 'Interest'

In the new book called 'Interest,' Cornell sociologist Richard Swedberg traces the intellectual history of the concept of interest and argues that how economists have used the concept is too narrow a view.